{"id":246328,"date":"2025-10-28T12:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T12:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/246328\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T12:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T12:42:09","slug":"fake-hurricane-videos-shared-online-including-ai-generated-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/246328\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake hurricane videos shared online including AI-generated sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hurricane Melissa AI videos widely circulating onlinepublished at 11:04 GMT<\/p>\n

11:04 GMT<\/p>\n

Paul Brown and Shayan Sardarizadeh
BBC Verify senior journalists<\/p>\n

Many dramatic videos created with artificial intelligence are being shared online as Hurricane Melissa gets closer to Jamaica.<\/p>\n

We have observed dozens of such videos on TikTok, which have racked up millions of views in total. A search for Hurricane Melissa on the platform leads users to many AI-generated or old clips from past storms.Some of the videos have watermarks that clarify they were created with AI-generators such as Open AI\u2019s text-to-video model Sora.<\/p>\n

Others have removed or blurred watermarks in an apparent attempt to mislead viewers, or feature fake reporters and a mix of short clips that appear like legitimate reports from local sources.<\/p>\n

One video, viewed half a million times on TikTok, shows a woman on a balcony filming two sharks swimming in heavily flooded streets. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s a blurred sign visible on the bottom left of the clip, likely a watermark that\u2019s been hidden. The uploader later added a label to the caption to indicate the video was made with AI.<\/p>\n

\"ScreenshotImage source, TikTok<\/p>\n

One dramatic clip, viewed 2.6 million times, shows what appears to be the eye of the storm filmed from a passenger plane flying nearby. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat moment when you realise the swirling clouds below aren\u2019t just clouds\u2026 they\u2019re a hurricane,\u201d reads the caption.<\/p>\n

But the video is not real, and was posted by a user who has a history of sharing fake clips of natural disasters. The clip appears similar to real footage filmed by a US Air Force Reserve crew<\/a> known as the “Hurricane Hunters” on Monday.<\/p>\n

Another clip shows a group of men running for safety as a huge wave makes landfall near a coast. A small VEO watermark is visible on the bottom right, which makes it clear the video was made using Google\u2019s text-to-video generator.<\/p>\n

According to an AFP report on Monday, external<\/a>, TikTok recently removed more than two dozen AI videos of the hurricane. However, fake clips continue to circulate widely on the platform.<\/p>\n

BBC Verify has asked TikTok for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hurricane Melissa AI videos widely circulating onlinepublished at 11:04 GMT 11:04 GMT Paul Brown and Shayan SardarizadehBBC Verify…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-246328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}